Peter wrote:
Then there are the '30mph' which should for consistency be '30
mph' (with a space).
Kevin replied:
I don't see the point of editing just for consistency. Developers
should handle
leading/trailing spaces, or the lack thereof, and different
capitalisation, as
without any input
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
On 16 March 2011 21:16, Tim François timhafranc...@gmail.com wrote:
Good work!
I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't
work if I didn't capitalise the first letters of the street name. Is this a
feature or a
Craig wrote:
A practical approach would seem to be for an implementation to
accept
multiple instances of the street role, as either ways or
relations.
Where a child-relation of role=street is treated as a collection
of
segments.
It does seem logical. Especially as any street currently
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote:
You should note that PotLatch2 uses the space version when using the
'simple' interface.
(What's with the L?)
And anyone who uses PotLatch will be increasing the preponderance of the '30
mph' version.
All I ask
Matt Williams [mailto:li...@milliams.com] wrote:
Sent: 16 March 2011 7:51 PM
To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-GB] Postcode finder based on OSM data
Greetings all,
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal
Mail's postcode/address finder (you know,
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit without an account) [1] but based entirely on data
in the OSM database.
The beta version of VMD is now available. Details on the OS website at
http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/03/os-vectormap-district-graduates-to-beta-release/
Some things have been generalised, others improved. Still not sure what
to think of it really...
Luke
Luke Smith | Technical
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's great; and I trust that my constructive feedback won't be taken
as dissing your achievment...
You return nothing
This is great stuff - could I make a few suggestions?
- When displaying the textual address put a comma between name and street.
For example
http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/house/way/42732730/
should show 'Mole Avon, Station Yard'. The comma is not necessary for house
Tom Chance tom@... writes:
I've been switching any feature I find over to addr:postcode.
If this is the consensus view then perhaps they should be changed en masse?
At least just for the United Kingdom. What do others think?
(I've always used postal_code until now, perhaps because when I
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's great; and I trust that my constructive feedback won't be taken
as
Luke Smith luke.smith@... writes:
The beta version of VMD is now available. Details on the OS
website at
http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2011/03/
os-vectormap-district-graduates-to-beta-release/
Some things have been generalised, others improved.
Notably the building shapes are more detailed
Derick Rethans osm@... writes:
For a common address, such as 2 High Street, you return multiple
results, with no obvious distinguishing feature. Please include the
addr:city value in the results (if present);
Actually, city wouldn't always work. There are f.e. 3 Victoria Roads
in London.
Yes,
On 17 March 2011 12:49, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Andy Mabbett wrote:
For a common address, such as 2 High Street, you return multiple
results, with no obvious distinguishing feature. Please include the
addr:city value in the results (if present); and
On 17 March 2011 12:09, Craig Loftus craigloftus+...@googlemail.com wrote:
Nice work Matt, I look forward to an alternative to RM's postcode finder.
- Largely based on the Karlsruhe Schema (including the associatedStreet
relation for grouping houses together)
A question with regard to your
On 17 March 2011 12:09, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
Greetings all,
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit without
On 17 March 2011 12:13, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
On 16 March 2011 21:16, Tim François timhafranc...@gmail.com wrote:
Good work!
I just tried searching based on house number and street name, and it didn't
work if I didn't
On 17 March 2011 12:29, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote:
Craig wrote:
A practical approach would seem to be for an implementation to
accept
multiple instances of the street role, as either ways or
relations.
Where a child-relation of role=street is treated as a collection
of
segments.
On 17 March 2011 13:04, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent work Matt.
http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/search/?postcode=B72
Yup, that's the page I'm most likely to show off to people. Good work.
If you want to extend, then a custom P2 to
On 17 March 2011 13:17, Ben Pollinger benpollinger+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder (you know, the one with the ~5
queries a day limit
On 17 March 2011 13:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's great; and I trust that my constructive
On 17 March 2011 13:40, Tom Chance t...@acrewoods.net wrote:
On 17 March 2011 12:17, Ben Pollinger benpollinger+...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried a few UK streets I had tagged with postcodes and it didn't
work, but I guess that is because they use
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Postal_code
On 17 March 2011 13:49, Derick Rethans o...@derickrethans.nl wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's postcode/address finder
That's
On 17 March 2011 14:02, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
P.S. on an individual address's page, such as:
http://milliams.dev.openstreetmap.org/postcodefinder/house/way/99795053/69/
it would be helpful to add hCard (venue), ADR (address) and GEO
(coordinates; if shown on the
- Have you considered using the Code Point Open data as a fallback in
case the
postcode is not in OSM? It would not allow an exact address to be
pinpointed
but it could give a link to the right area of the map with a hint to get
to
work populating it fully.
Yup, this is already
On 17/03/2011 14:33, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Matt Williams wrote:
snip..
It doesn't currently parse any postcode tag on highway=* roads since
strictly it's not the roads themselves that have postcodes, but the
houses themselves. I didn't want to encourage this too much I
Matt Williams lists@... writes:
I'm not sure that adding the postcoded street itself to my database
would work since the base unit I work with is the 'house' or 'delivery
point' whereas the street is simply part of the address.
That's absolutely right but it might still be useful to provide a
On 17 March 2011 16:25, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote:
Matt Williams lists@... writes:
I'm not sure that adding the postcoded street itself to my database
would work since the base unit I work with is the 'house' or 'delivery
point' whereas the street is simply part of the address.
That's
On 17 March 2011 14:35, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
On 17 March 2011 13:37, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 16 March 2011 19:51, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
For the last week I've been working on a sort of 'replacement' for the
Royal Mail's
Have put up a wiki page detailing how the 'pseudo-Landranger' map at
http://www.free-map.org.uk/expts/vmdlfp200/
was created...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/VMD_plus_LFP_plus_OSM
Nick
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On 17 March 2011 18:55, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote:
On 17 March 2011 17:44, Jerry Clough : SK53 on OSM sk53_...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
A few weeks ago I did pull out postcodes from all tagged objects compared
them with CodePoint, IIRC OSM had about 0.6% of them (around 7000 in
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